Nov 30, 2011

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Some would argue L5-fluff pieces and gossip could have truly blown this blog up. Well for all those folks, see this little story in the IDS....It DOES have a bike in the picture #slownewstime By the way if anyone new wants to contribute to this blog please let me know. All welcome and fresh ideas needed!

I liked the article and agree with Ren Jay. As usual, you guys don't get it. Where else in the world can a dude get a chic by being an "average" cyclist? I know I sound like the old guy (partly because I'm getting there), but enjoy the experience of Little 5 because there's nothing like it!

There are only 4-5 teams a year that have the ability to win Little 5, there are another 4-5 teams who believe they can win and there are 20+ who know they have no real shot. If Little 5 was just about winning, it would not have the participation level or the viewership. So again, you are missing the point to this article.

Todd-This article has nothing to do w/ L5 and everything to do w/ gender roles in relationships. It's about this dude "still being able to make time for his girl" despite his other commitments, whatever those may be. It's about a frat guy and sorority girl. It sucks.

7:22- I agree completely the gender roles are very disturbing in this article and in the picture. Also says a lot about the Greek system as you point out, but this blog is about Bloomington cycling so I addressed that. Unless you're a hipster, saying, "I ride a single speed," isn't getting you a girl any place but at IU.

I can assure you that teams like DTD, Sigma Chi, and PDT do not consider it a victory if a frat wins the race. For the teams that put in the time and passion a second place finish might as well have been a 10th place finish. For those teams there is no happiness at other's loss - only disappointment at their own.

Neibler took that house from only making the race due to another team's triple fault the year before he started riding to 2nd place his senior year. Built it from nothing, no alum support, no equipment and brought in coaches and riders that made them a team people talk about annually. So I don't see a problem in delts celebrating not just that race day but where they had come in 3 short years.

6-8 hours? Some teams ride that on weekends alone. Nice article about the couple but this kid isn't a rider he's a participant in little five. All frat teams do not resemble this mentality. In regards to dtd yes Neibler has built up a fine little program over there with the help of bending the rules and getting riders like coudright and Stuart who aren't even in the frat and pay no dues or anything. It's the same with phi delt. West doesn't do anything except ride. Not that this is an issue but don't go around praising a frat and it's morals and values when they picked you to solely ride. You're not a brother you're an independent wanna be that couldn't hack those other independent teams so just to jump on the good things we have going on.

5:36am:You may have good points about frat stuff (or maybe not, I don't know and couldn't care less about that crap) but your are wrong here: "Nice article about the couple..." It's a terrible article.

the rest of you were probably watching him ride away from you. for the spectators it was probably interesting for about 30 seconds until it became painfully obvious what the outcome was going to be. that's boring

"that's the difference between the winners and the participants. some people don't care about anything other than first. just ask all those cutters alums on the fence with their 50+ ringsDecember 2, 2011 10:08 AM"

PDT will definitely be strong, no doubt, and likely in the finals. I'm interested to see how Patch and Kevin to with the Cutters in TP. Otherwise Delts, Sigma Chi, and Acacia will be teams to watch out for.

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